Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, will talk about the history of Hamilton College on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. at the Clinton Historical Society on Fountain Street in Clinton. The talk, titled “A bicentennial overview of Hamilton College history,” is free and open to the public.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells published two poems in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of The Spoon River Poetry Review. The poems, “Illinois Ilissos” and “Migration,” are from Bicycle, a collection of poetry that Wells is currently writing. More ...

A “well-written and thoroughly researched volume …[an] intriguing history” is how the December 2009 volume of the School Library Journal described Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America in a glowing review. Written by Burke Library Director of Public Services Carolyn Carpan, the book is the first study of American girls' series books to examine the entire genre from its beginning in the 1840s to present day, including Nancy Drew, The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High. More ...

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and lecturer in music performance, was a guest lecturer on Jan. 28, on the SUNY Oneonta campus. Also that day, Rowe spoke informally about jazz and the photography of JoAnn Krivin at the Project Space Gallery. Rowe wrote the introduction to Krivin’s book Jazz Studies, a collection of photographs of jazz performers taken during the late 1970s through the 1990s. More ...

Shelley P. Haley, professor of classics and Africana studies, will present a talk titled “Cleopatra: From African Queen to Liz Taylor,” on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the Other Side in Utica. This is the sixth event in the Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton College and The Other Side. More ...

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer performed his one-man show, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, at the University of Akron on Feb. 4. While there he also taught a master class. Cryer created the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions. More ...

Described by a New York Times reviewer as “the book of a lifetime... an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling,” Fallen Giants - A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes has been released in paperback by Yale University Press. Co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, the book was originally published in 2008 in hardback. More ...

Professors of Archaeology Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones have a co-authored an article that appears in the latest issue of American Antiquity (vol 75, no. 1). Their article, "Clovis and Western Stemmed: Population Migration and the Meeting of Two Technologies in the Intermountain West," evaluates whether terminal Pleistocene cultural traditions of the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau were derived from an early colonizing population known as Clovis or represent independent cultural developments. More ...

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, delivered a lecture titled "The Joys of Dickens: Reading Great Expectations" on behalf of PEN at the Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Feb. 2. The preceding week, at the San Miguel Biblioteca, Briggs introduced David Lean's adaptation of Dickens' novel, a film ranked number five in the British Film Institute's list of the 100 best British films of the 20th century. More ...

Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten published an article in the “Membrane Protein Dynamics by NMR: Correlation of Structure and Function” special issue of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Biomembranes. The paper titled “Can antimicrobial peptides scavenge around a cell in less than a second?” is co-authored with a Pacific Lutheran undergraduate and Eduard Chekmenev of Vanderbilt University. More ...